Faked photos of Gaza International Airport

Faked photos of Gaza International Airport

August 22, 2014 by Thomas Wictor

When I first saw this image of what was said to be the Israeli bombing of Yasser Arafat International Airport on July 7, 2014, I thought it looked very strange. Several other pictures by the same photgrapher were published, and they all had a whiff of fraudulence about them. A little research proved that these are faked photos. Very obviously, very badly faked.

First, the picture that struck me as deeply odd.

Those would have to be mushroom clouds from GBU-31 2000-lb JDAMs, the only Israeli aerial munitions that can create such towers of smoke.

However…

I’ve never in my life seen four JDAM mushroom clouds that were not only rising into the sky together but were all exactly the same height. Also, the clouds are the same distance apart, and their bottoms are perfectly situated on the horizon. It simply doesn’t look like a real photo.

There are at least four published photos that purport to show the July 7, 2014 bombing that killed eight Palestinians. Here’s another.

You can see in that picture that the four mushroom clouds are not equidistant. More proof that the photos are faked. Mushroom clouds don’t slide along the ground until they’re all evenly spaced.

This photo allegedly depicts the first, second, and third JDAM strikes.

In this next image, the mushroom clouds on the far left and right have grown considerably, but the one second from the left is still the same size. It’s waiting for the other three to catch up, I guess.

Finally, we see all four mature mushroom clouds, posing for their portraits.

These photos are composite images. You can tell by looking at the water tank on the roof in this picture.

Note how hard and black the edge of the tank is, as though it were outlined with a fine-tipped pen.

The elements of the composite are as follows.

1. The building in the left foreground.

2. The building in the right foreground and the background with the unidentified airport.

3. All the mushroom clouds in their various stages.

I made a gif that shows that these images are faked. Look at the building in the left foreground.

Observe the trees, water tanks, and rooftop cupola. Their angle stays exactly the same while the angles of everything else in the photos change. That’s not physically possible.

If the photographer moved to his right or left, the angle of the building in the left foreground would change. It doesn’t. That’s because it’s a cutout. The photo of the building in the left foreground is repeated in all of the images.